The 2025 Cannes Film Festival is set to be a glamorous affair, featuring films from renowned directors like Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater, Ari Aster, Julia Ducournau, and Kelly Reichardt competing for the prestigious Palme d’Or.
Tom Cruise will return to the Croisette with Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, debuting out of competition. Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest, starring Denzel Washington, will also screen out of competition after Lee announced it on Instagram. Scarlett Johansson will premiere her directorial debut, Eleanor the Great, in the Un Certain Regard section, alongside Harris Dickinson’s first film as a director, Urchin.
Bono is expected to attend for the first time with his documentary Bono: Stories of Surrender. The festival will open with the French comedy-drama Leave One Day (Partir un Jour), directed by Amélie Bonnin. Artistic director Thierry Fremaux noted that this year saw a record 2,909 submissions, with 32% of films directed by women.
Fremaux emphasized that this year’s selections reflect a world filled with both violence and love. Juliette Binoche will preside over the jury, while Robert De Niro will receive an honorary Palme d’Or.
See all the titles playing at Cannes Film Festival below:
OPENING FILM
Leave One Day (Partir un Jour), Amélie Bonnin
COMPETITION
The Phoenician Scheme, Wes Anderson
Eddington, Ari Aster
Young Mothers (Jeunes Mères), Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
Alpha, Julia Ducournau
Renoir, Hayakawa Chie
The History of Sound, Oliver Hermanus
La Petite Dernière, Hafsia Herzi
Sirat, Oliver Laxe
New Wave (Nouvelle Vague), Richard Linklater
Two Prosecutors, Sergei Loznitsa
Fuori, Mario Martone
The Secret Agent”(O Secreto Agente), Kleber Mendonça Filho
Dossier 137, Dominik Moll
It Was Just an Accident (Un Simple Accident), Jafar Panahi
The Mastermind, Kelly Reichardt
Aigles of the Republic, Tarik Saleh
Sound of Falling, Mascha Schilinski
Romería, Carla Simón
Sentimental Value, Joachim Trier
UN CERTAIN REGARD
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (La Misteriosa Mirada del Flamenco), Diego Céspedes
Météors, Hubert Charuel
My Father’s Shadow, Akinola Davies Jr.
L’Inconnu de la Grande Arche, Stéphane Demoustier
Urchin, Harris Dickinson
Homebound, Neeraj Ghaywan
A Pale View of Hills (Toi Yamanamino Hikari), Ishikawa Kei
Eleanor the Great, Scarlett Johansson
Karavan, Zuzana Kirchnerová
Pillion, Harry Lighton
Aisha Can’t Fly Away, Morad Mostafa
Once Upon a Time in Gaza, Arab Nasser and Tarzan Nasser
The Plague, Charlie Polinger
Promised Sky, Erige Sehiri
The Last One for the Road (Le Città di Pianura), Francesco Sossai
Heads or Tails? (Testa o Croce?), Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis
OUT OF COMPETITION
Colours of Time, Cédric Klapisch
The Richest Woman in the World (La Femme la Plus Riche du Monde), Thierry Klifa
Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, Christopher McQuarrie
Vie Privée, Rebecca Zlotowski
Highest 2 Lowest, Spike Lee
